First let me address my poor math skills. Last week I said that I had lost .6 lb, that was not so, I actually lost .4 lb. I knew when I weighed in what it was, I knew when I wrote it down on my calendar what it was, but somehow when I wrote my blog post, I went all stupid and kept writing .6 instead of .4! I have edited last week's post to reflect a more accurate portrait of the actual weigh in.

With that being said, hello and good Saturday to you all. After hitting the gym real hard last week to only lose .4 lb I decided to try a different tactic this week. I only went to the gym twice this week! I tried to control my eating, but I wasn't always on top of it :( Chocolate chip cookies made it into the house... and they had to be destroyed! There were so many cookies, that today, 3 days after they arrived, I'm still trying to destroy them :)

So this week was yet again another disappointment on the scale. Man, I've got to pull it together! In the past I'd have weeks where my diet was good but I wasn't hitting the gym, or I'd be hitting the gym and my diet was all over the place. I was still losing weight, but I was waiting for the perfect storm of diet and gym time to converge in perfect harmony and have a week where I'd lose like 10 lbs and, in a perfect storm world, become amazingly strong, incredibly handsome, completely charismatic and unbelievably wonderful! Buuuuuut, I don't think that's ever going to happen :( The diet and gym getting sorted out and coming together might happen, but the rest of it? Pipe dream at best.

Let's take a look at this week's disappointment. Err, numbers:

Weight : 216.4
Lost : .2
Total : 100.8

Yep, 2/10ths of a pound, .2 lb, less than 1/4 lb. 3.2 ounces to be precise. Shameful, utterly shameful. But you know what? I don't care. It's too close to the end of the year, and overall I've had a pretty good year. I had hoped to go out hitting my goal of 207, but that is not going to happen with just one weigh in left, so oh well :)

My goal for between now and January 5th 2013 is to not go above 217.2 (my 100 lb mark). I figure with Christmas and New year's in the next two weeks, if I can pretty much maintain my weight through the 5th, I will have done pretty well. Of course I will still try to lose weight, but the temptations may be more than I can work off! Like they say, " you can't out exercise your mouth".

In closing, let me wish you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful new year :)

Ken Heaston
Since 1970